Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.